Outside the courtyard of the mountain above, a group of people had a clairglass in their hands, staring at Xie Dai's every move from afar.

Zhao Yi put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned back to a man beside him and said, "Uncle Shen, Xie Dai rushed to this courtyard in such a hurry, and most of the six princes were locked up here. ”

"Can we just do it?"

The "Uncle Shen" in his mouth is naturally Shen Gang, the leader of the dark department under the command of the Marquis of Jing'an for many years.

Shen Gang was Li Xin's subordinate when he first joined Yu Linwei, he was in his thirties at that time, and now more than ten years have passed, Shen Gang is nearly half a hundred years old, and there are more and more things in the dark department.

Shen Gang was also watching Xie Dai's every move with a clairvoyant mirror, and after thinking for a while, he spoke: "Let's wait and see, we don't have many people in Shanyin, even if we can grab the sixth prince, it will be difficult to bring him back to the southwest a little, I am already mobilizing people here, and I will wait and see for two more days." ”

Speaking of this, he looked down at Zhao Yi and said, "When you really want to do it, don't get involved, avoid it early, if something happens, I can't explain it to your father." ”

Zhao Jia has presided over the affairs of the southwest for many years, and his status in the entire southwest group is extremely high, and it can even be said that he is second only to Li Xin, even if it is Shen Gang, he does not dare to put Zhao Jia's only son in danger.

Zhao Yi lowered his head and said with a wry smile: "Uncle Shen, when I came to the dark department to do things, I had already told my father-in-law that I would treat everyone else in the dark department equally, you have all gone to Shanyin in person, there is no reason for me to avoid it." ”

Shen Gang said indifferently: "You are still young, firstly, you don't know how to fight, and secondly, you have no experience, if you really want to do it, you can't help much, it's too dangerous to stay here." ”

The two of them were talking, when someone suddenly whispered: "Shen Tou, someone has come out!" ”

Shen Gang and Zhao Yi picked up the clairing mirror at the same time and looked at the courtyard in the distance, only to see that not long after Xie Dai entered the courtyard, a carriage walked out of the courtyard and slowly drove towards Shanyin.

Shen Gang put down the clairvoyant mirror and frowned: "Xie Dai came on horseback, but he took the carriage back to ......."

Zhao Yi said in a low voice: "Most of the people in the carriage are there. ”

Shen Gang nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice to the people around him: "Half of the people are staring at Xie Dai, and the other half is guarding this courtyard, and in the past two days, find out where the people are." ”

The dark department began to have a prototype in the third year of Taikang, and it has been running for almost ten years, and the system and division of labor are very perfect, Shen Gang gave an order, and immediately the people below were immediately divided into two groups, one group continued to stay on the mountain above, and the other group was behind Xie Dai, following from afar.

This kind of thing is actually a very technical job, and it is easy for people with a little experience to detect it, but after Li Xin got out the clairvoyant mirror, the distance of stalking has increased greatly, even if it is an experienced person in the military like Xie Dai, it is difficult to detect.

The dark department under Li Xin is slowly transferring manpower to Shanyin.

On the other side of the southwest, after Mu Ying returned to the Mu family, she dealt with the people involved in the Mu family, and brought a total of more than 30 people into Zhao Jia's Jingluo Mansion, which was an explanation given by the Mu family.

Mu Ying's approach is still very sincere, among the more than 30 people, two of them are his cousins, his uncle knelt in front of him and pleaded, but he couldn't save his two sons, and he was tied up by Mu Ying and thrown into Jingluo Mansion.

How to deal with it all depends on Zhao Jia's meaning.

After this incident, Li Xin handed over the government affairs of the southwest to Zhao Jia, and then left Jincheng and went to the front line in Hanzhong, where Mu Ying and Li Shuo walked with him.

After arriving in Hanzhong, Li Xin inspected the Southwest Army in Hanzhong in detail, as well as the newly built gunpowder workshop in Hanzhong.

Li Xin led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the second year of Taikang, and later after the victory of the Western Expedition, he followed Ye Sheng in the capital, and systematically learned the method of leading the troops, although he had not directly led the troops for many years, but he knew the army very well, and pointed out many problems in the southwest army of Hanzhong after the inspection.

After a few days in Hanzhong, the three of them walked together on the city wall of Hanzhong, and then Li Xin looked to the east from afar.

To the east of Hanzhong is Ankang, and Ankang is also under the control of the Southwest Army.

After taking Xiangyang, you can basically drive straight into the capital and drive the army directly to the capital.

Li Xin looked at the direction of the east for a while, and said, "During the time I went to the capital, how many people died under Xie Jing's command?" ”

When Li Xin went to the capital, in order to protect himself, he commanded the southwest army to go out of Shu, Mu Ying led the southwest army and Xie Jing's Hanzhong army for more than a month of fierce battles, and later Li Xin and Yuan Zhao Tianzi reached a tacit understanding, and the imperial army withdrew from Hanzhong Ankang, and all withdrew to the vicinity of Xiangyang City,

Mu Ying bowed her head slightly, and said: "General Hui, our army has been fighting with the Hanzhong army for more than a month, and has fought six times before and after, all of which have been great victories for our house, and Xie Jing's troops have suffered casualties before and after, there should be more than 10,000 people, plus serious injuries, it is estimated that 20,000 combat strength has been lost." ”

"In other words, there are at least more than 100,000 people in Xie Jing's department and Pei Jin's department in Xiangyang City."

Li Xin frowned and said: "If we want to go east to Bashu, Xiangyang City is an important town that must be taken, with our current strength, how sure are we to take Xiangyang?" ”

"Ten percent."

Mu Ying lowered her head and smiled bitterly: "But after taking Xiangyang, it is estimated that there is not much left of our troops, although Xie Dai is incompetent, but Pei Jin is a very difficult character to deal with, and his subordinates heard that this General Pei has figured out a set of tactical formations to deal with the thunder, and he has practiced with his soldiers day and night." ”

This is not surprising, Tianlei has been famous all over the world for several years, when Pei entered and exited Hanzhou in the eighth year of Taikang, he suffered a big loss from Tianlei, and after knowing the functions and characteristics of Tianlei, even if he couldn't get the same thing, it was not difficult to figure out a set of ways to deal with it.

For example, the formation is scattered, for example, the archers are suppressed remotely, for example, the city gate is blocked with bluestone, each of these three points will make the side using the heavenly thunder extremely uncomfortable.

"Pei Jin, ah......"

After Li Xin lowered his head and pondered for a while, he said slowly: "Shen Gang has already taken people to Shanyin, in a few days, the news from Shanyin should come back, if Shanyin does not succeed, Shen Gang will go to Yuezhou and bring King Yueyang back to the southwest." ”

"When the time comes, it's time for us to do something."

Li Xin bowed his head slightly, and his tone was low: "That is to say, we still have a few months to prepare, and in these few months, I will stay in Hanzhong, and the two of you will clean up military discipline, and in addition, we will clean up some unclean things in the army." ”

"The generals above the rank of captain of the Southwest Army, everyone must make a detailed inventory, and if there are any spies in the imperial court after the investigation, they will be executed together with the officials!"

Mu Ying and Li Shuo bowed respectfully to Li Xin: "The last general will follow the general's order!" ”

Li Xin's eyes were calm.

"The two of you, each send five hundred people, check the generals in the opposing army, and all the results will be sent to me, and I will be responsible for what happens."

"This is a matter of life and death, before doing things, we must be clean, otherwise we will be crushed in the face of the imperial court."

The two generals looked at each other, then bowed respectfully.

"The last general...... Yes, sir! ”